Clothesline attachment



Ala, 15 1924. 1.4%,485

- L. ROZIGER CLOTHBSLINE ATTACHMENT Filed May 2. 1922 Patented Apr. 15, 1924.

LEO aozro-na, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

GLOTHESLINE ATTACHMENT.

application filed. May 2,

ally fastened to the window frame or to the wall adjacent the window opening. In manipulating the line, the operator is compelled to lean out of the window, due to which fact many accidents happen.

The main object of the present invention 15 to provide a simple and lnexpensive clothes-line pulley support, which isadapted to be extended into the room, so that the attendant is able to fasten the clothes to or remove the same from the line within the room, without leaning out of the window.-

Another object of the invention is to so construct the said support that the length of the line is automatically shortened when the support is swung to its normal operative position, that is to sayout of the room.

WVith these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. 7 7

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a clothesline attachment constructed in accordance with the present invention, the same being shown extended into the roomyFig. 2 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 3 is also a plan view of the attachment in its folded state, swung out of the room; Fig. 4: is an end view, on a larger scale, of the attaching bracket and the pulley support thereon; Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of 1922. Serial N0. 557,986.

Fig. 2, on a larger scale; and Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 2, also on a larger scale.

In the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a building wall, provided with a window opening 11, in which is mounted a window frame. 12. In this frame are slidably disposed, in the usual manner, the window sashes, not shown. To the outer surface-of the window frame is attached, for instance by screws 13, a bracket 14. In this bracket is oscillatably mounted the vertical extension 15 of a horizontally extending bar 16. Thisbar is made of two sections, denoted by the numerals 17 and 18,-the section 17 being, preferably, made integral with the spindle 15. The two sections of the bar are united by a pivot 19, which isextended be low the bar, as shown at 20, the said extension having a hook-shaped free end 21. The pivot 19 extends vertically, thereby permit ting the two. bar sections to be swung in a horizontal plane so thatrone of the same forms the continuation of the other, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, or to be folded one against the other, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The swinging movement of the bars to their'extended position (Figssl and 2) is limited by a stop 22 on the bar section 18, said stop being adapted to abut against the bar section 17, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6. On the free end of the bar section 18 is formed a hook 23, on which is mounted the inner pulley 24 of the clothes-line 25, the latter running over an outer pulley, mounted on a suitable support.

The spindle 15 has a hook-shaped bend 26, with which the line 25 may be engaged, for a purpose hereinafter to be described.

011 the bar section 17 is mounted a catch 27 adapted to engage a keeper 28, the latter being secured to the inner face of the window frame in alignment with the bracket 14;. A suitable distance above this keeper, there is mounted on the inner face of the window frame an eye screw 29, with which is engaged one end of a chain 30, the other end of which may be detachably joined with the free end of the bar section 18, when the bar 16 has been extended into the room. The

purpose of this chain is to properly support The clothes-line used in connection with the device herein described must be somewhat longer than those usually employed. The line is mounted in the ordinary way by extending the same over the pulley on the outer support and over the inner pulley 2 1, fastening its ends together in any preferred manner. The line extends, when the attachment is swung into the room, as shownin Figs. 1 and .2 of the drawings, frpin the inner pulley directly to the outer pulley, the attendant fastening the clothes to the lower branch of the clothes-line in the ordinary manner, but without leaning out of the window. In these positions ofthe elements, the catch 27 is engaged withthe keeper 2 8, to prevent the bar 16 from swinging outwards, the outer end of the said bar being supported, as above. described, by the eh'am 30. After the clothes have been fastened. to the line, both branches of the latter are brought into engagement with the hooks 21 and 26 on the pivot pin 19 and spindle 1 5, respec tively. The chain 30 is then disengaged from the bar section 18, and the .catch' 27 miseated from the keeper 28 by firstslightly lifting the ba1 16 and the r swing-me the same away from the said keeper. After this, the bar section 16 is swung on itspiv0t 15 in the direction of the arrow marked X in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and simultaneously therewith the bar section 18 is swung on the pivot pin 19 in the direction the arrow marked Y in the said figure until the said two bar sections are brought to hear one "against the other, as clearly shown in Fig.

3 the drawings. From this figiire, i t appears that, in their outer positions, the bar sections extend substantially at right angles to theouter surface of the wan, thelv being held in such positions and against on another due to the fact that the clothes-line extends through the hooks 21 and 26, in addition to its running over the inner pulley 24. From this it also appears that, when the bar sections are swung to their folded outer positions, the clothes-line is automatically shortened, it being in a similar manner lengthened when the said bar sections are extended into the room.

If it is intended to bring the clothes-line into the room, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the operations above described are reversed.

hat. I claim is A clothes-line support comprising a bracket for attachment to the outer surface of a wall adjacent a window opening, a horizontally extending bar having 'a vertical eX- tension oscillatably mounted on said bracket,

thereby permitting said bar to swing in a horizontal plane, said bar comprising two pivoted sections adapted to be swung through the windowopening and capable of forming an extension of one another, a clothes-line pulley mounted on the free end of said bar, coacting means on said bar and the inner face of the wall for holding said bar, against movement after having been swung through the window open'ing, an extension on the pivot unitingsaid two bar secti'ons, said last-named ebr'tension having a hook-shaped free end below said bar, and a hook-shaped element on the vertical extension of said bar, both hooks being adapted toieeeive the clothes line to shorten its active length when said bar sections are swung from their eiftended positions to their folded positions.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 22nd day of April, A. D. 1922.

LEO ROZIGER. 

